Since Voyager 1 blasted off in 1977, it has skirted past the kaleidoscopic clouds of Jupiter and the icy rings ... A twin probe, Voyager 2, saw the same thing in 2007. Last year, Voyager 1 ...

This close-up view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1 ... cold and remarkably clear atmosphere. To date, Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited the distant, gaseous giant.

Jupiter is a massive ball of gas. Its clouds are composed of ammonia and water vapor drifting in an atmosphere of hydrogen ... In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft zipped by the gas giant ...

But when Voyager ... like Jupiter. Or so they thought. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each ...

In April of 1978, barely a year before its scheduled encounter with Jupiter, the primary S-band receiver on Voyager 2 was shut down by fault-protection algorithms on the spacecraft that failed to ...

There's no outer crust to break your fall on Jupiter. Just an endless stretch of atmosphere. The big question, then, is: Could you fall through one end of Jupiter and out the other? It turns out ...

As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter has a magnetic ... and deliver a probe to explore the atmosphere.

Voyager 1 detected a small ring around Jupiter and many of Saturn's moons during its flybys. Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, providing data about these ...

To learn more about the impact of the storm on Jupiter's atmosphere, the researchers obtained data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, the Hubble Space Telescope and from the ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 probe flew ... Loss of atmosphere resulting in plasmoids has been observed around other planets in our solar system, including Saturn and Jupiter, though it’s thought that ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else. It would appear that a really big storm on Jupiter can ...